I do love you and your piano and your music. The piano in this song is...wow.

Exhibit A: We are friends in a sleeping bagSplitting the heat we have one filthy pillow to shareAnd your lips are in my hair

Someone upstairs has a rap that we laugh atAnd people are drinking and singing the scarborough fairOn a ukelele dare

Exhibit B: Well we found an apartmentIt's not much to look at - A futon on the floorDirty desktop for a doorAll the decor's made of milk crates and duct tapeAnd if we have sex they can hear us through the floorBut we don't do that anymore

And I lay there wondering what is the matterIs this a matter of worse or of betterYou took the blanket so I took the bed sheetAnd I would have held you if you'd only let me

Exhibit C: Look how quaint and how quiet and privateOur pay checks have bought us a condo in townIt's the nicest flat aroundYou picked a mattress and had it deliveredAnd I walked upstairs and the sight of it made my heart poundAnd I wrapped my arms around me

And I lay there wondering what is the matterIs this a matter of worse or of betterYou walked right past me and straightened the coversAnd I would still love you if you wanted a lover

And you said: "All the money in the worldWon't buy a bed so big and wideTo guarantee that you won't accidentally touch me in the night"Then I said: "You must be right"

Exhibit D: Now we are both mostly paralyzedDon't know how long we've been lying here in fearToo afraid to even feelI find my glasses and you turn the light outRoll off on your side like you've rolled away for yearsHolding back those king-sized tears

And I still don't ask you what is the matterIs it a matter of worse or of betterYou take the heart-failure I'll take the cancerI've long since stopped wondering why you don't answer

Exhibit E: You can certainly seeHow fulfilling a life from the cost and size of stoneOf our final resting homeWe got some nice ones right under a cherry treeYou and me lying the only way we knowSide by side and still and cold

And I finally ask you what was the matterWas this a matter of worse or of betterYou stretch your arms out and finally face meAnd said

I would have told you if you'd only asked meyou'd only asked meyou'd only asked me